WORK WITH COURSERAAndrew also co-founded Coursera which offers online courses from top universities for free. With over 80 university, other partners and nearly 400 courses, Coursera is currently the largest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform in the world. Ng's goal is to connect everyone to a great education for free.

ABOUT

ANDREW NG

Andrew Ng is VP & Chief Scientist of Baidu; Co-Chairman and Co-Founder of Coursera; and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. In 2011 he led the development of Stanford University’s main MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platform and also taught an online Machine Learning class that was offered to over 100,000 students, leading to the founding of Coursera.

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INTRODUCTION TO O2O

There is a rise of O2O (online to offline) services, in which users are using their cellphones to get their cars washed, make last-minute restaurant reservations, find discounted deals, order prescription medicine, and more. Cellphones are becoming a “remote control” for the physical environment around us. O2O’s rise has been rapid in China, because of its high population density. On a recent trip there, I shot this sequence of eight videos to give viewers a sense of this rise of O2O.